It was the role that troubled American actress Lindsay Lohan hoped would relaunch a career derailed by stints in jail and in rehab.

Can we just, PLEASE, get something straight about LL? LL was a good child actress who could play a perky, full-of-life, All-American girl in films like Herbie Fully Loaded, Mean Girls and Freaky Friday, and she was likeable at it. She wasn't Anna Paquin, Jodie Foster or Haley Joel Osment who showed a huge amount of talent at a young age, nor was she ever Robert Downey Jr, who we all wanted to get better because by Christ he was awesome in Chaplin and his descent into booze and drugs was a tragedy of such talent.